A majority of Mexicans overall (56 percent) say they have a positive opinion of the US. Despite the fact that 53 percent of Mexicans believe that those who emigrate to the US have a better life there, a majority say they would not move to the US even if they had the means and opportunity to do so.
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Republicans argued that the national parks along the border “have been turned into personal landfills for illegal border crossers,” where smugglers dump trash, leave human waste, destroy vegetation and start wildfires. They also cited dangers to visitors, including increased robberies and auto theft.
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“I’m hopeful there is no change in policy, but obviously this is an internal decision that will be made by the Mexican government, the Mexican people, but it’s not without some impact on Texas and the rest of the country,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
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Sen. John Cornyn berated Attorney General Eric Holder and aligned himself with those calling for Holder’s resignation at an explosive Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning. “You’ve violated the public trust in my view, by failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office,” Cornyn said.
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Rodolfo Lopez Negrete Coppel, chief operating officer of the Mexico Tourism Board, complained that the Texas DPS travel warning was misleading because it put a blanket warning on the entire country rather than the isolated areas where violence was occurring. “It creates an image of Mexico which is not the real one,” he said.
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“There is an ‘urban myth’ out there that somehow the Mexican government . . . is seeking to lobby against and destroy the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment,” said Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan. “This is gobbledygook.”
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“This is a special bill,” said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, the legislation’s author who conferred with the slain agent’s family before writing Jaime Zapata Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act.

“When it comes to the vital matter of maintaining the security of our border, we need the collaboration and cooperation of all our agencies,” Cuellar said.